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JavidanDey: a pixel-art game with a documented political wound

javidandey.com ↗ · Weird Finds · score 89.0
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A bilingual Persian-English run-and-gun game, playable in the browser or downloadable for Android, Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Why it surfaced

JavidanDey intertwines 12 missions from Chabahar to Shahr-e Kord with a meticulously sourced account of killings during Iran's Dey 1404 protests. Its count section presents competing figures from Iranian authorities, human-rights organizations, newspapers, the UN, and other named sources—an unusually serious editorial frame for a free pixel-art game.

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